Autistic People Can Predict The Future (...No, Seriously) [CC]

Well uh... this is one of the weirder videos I've made
But actually I learned a lot and had fun doing it so I hope you enjoy it too!
Sources & Resources:
Schizophrenia and telepathy (1977) - med.virginia.edu/perceptual-s...
History of terms for autism - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Sense of being stared at - www.sheldrake.org/research/se...
The thermodynamic theory/overview of all theories - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full...
Synesthesia and ESP - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1...
Autism and hypersensitivity - www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Colloquial accounts - www.saybrook.edu/blog/2015/04...
Savant and telepathy - www.dailygrail.com/2014/08/ne...
Psychics and autistics - www.psychologytoday.com/us/bl...
Pattern recognition and autistic states - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2228439/
Autism and supernatural experiences - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
Precognition might be possible study - medicalxpress.com/news/2010-1...
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[@izzyhendrix2651]

I am autistic. I have dreams about people the night before they call me or I see them, I have dreamed of car accidents I see later in the week or events that happen years later, I can answer questions before people have asked them when they are just thinking about it sometimes, I will randomly sing songs people around me have in their heads and they get weirded out or I'll get a song in my head before it comes on the radio, I have had multiple "paranormal" experiences and for some reason I have a weird effect on watches and phones and the time eventually speeds up... All my life I have been very annoyed with how "psychics" are portrayed because it's not a skill you can just tap into in my opinion, I've never had the ability to control these things and they don't always happen... but my friends and family have always joked that I change their world view because of how many weird things I predict. I honestly used to be scared of it all until I learned I was autistic, and then I was just like, oh! humans just don't understand these things yet, its not bad or creepy. I also have synesthesia and have had some concussions throughout life. Who knows, but brains are cool and we should be open to the possibilities instead of demonize what what we don't understand. Thanks for your awesome videos!

[@laitarianplayz8080]

Schizotypal personality disorder unless you have some pattern based reason

[@alexodeh]

I can relate.
I had a number of times when I dreamt of something before happening.
In the recent 2 years I’ve been seeing 2 years worth of visions in around half a year.

[@ML-di8lt]

I have just learned that we are in the same blursed cross section! I smell songs, acquired a severe TBI, and I've recently found out I'm autistic! As far as the "freaky skills" from a TBI, I felt like the parts of my brain that had to compensate for no longer having a frontal lobe just sort of... cranked those skills I already had up to 11 if that makes sense? And I'm honestly a little spooked that the example you used was song writing. Because that was one of mine as well. I was okay before, but after the brain injury, I was actually really good at it and - not just that - it came so easily to me.
I noticed that I could "predict the future" way better after my brain injury, but my mom says that I did it as a child. I've always figured I'm just very intuitive and I'm observing everything around me without realizing I'm doing it and therefore I "predict the future" or freak people out with cold tarot card readings.

[@siennaprice1351]

I’ve always wondered if I was doing this. A good example I can give is when I’m listening to Music Choice Soundscapes on cable TV, and I say, I feel like they’re going to play this song next, and they actually do. But then again, I also wonder if that’s because I’ve listened to the setlist so much, that I recognize the pattern they’re playing it in. I get those gut feelings too.

[@tannersage]

My 12 year old daughter has autism and is Nonverbal. However she is also telepathic! I didn’t believe this was possible and have felt crazy even though it’s right in front of me so I understand why others would doubt but I promise you one interaction with my daughter and your paradigm will be shaken leaving you a sold out believer! Know the how and why is a longer discussion and still not fully known but this so more common then you think!

[@QuantumVLOG]

I'm painted as incredibly cynical at work, though my predictions of projects and the possible issues that could arise from them is 90% of the time correct. I also semi regularly have dreams about otherwise mundane things that then happen the next day, or week. The most pertinent example is when I had a dream my Grandad died of a heart attack after suffering a stroke, the next day I went to school and got a call my Grandad died of a heart attack. Autopsy report came back saying the heart attack was most likely aggravated by him having a stroke moments before. Other examples include me fixing something in a dream, then using the dream solution in real life and it works - that has happened a lot.
I'm also able to tell who's on the phone for me or who's sent a text without needing to look at it or be the one who answers the phone based on the probabilities of said person calling/texting in that moment. It also helps assist with strategising in video games as I'm able to anticipate what the opponent will do after watching them play.
I'm not diagnosed with Autism or anything, though my friends think I'm incredibly autistic

[@TigerlilyWildflower]

Okay, this might just be a me thing…but when I was around three or four years old, I had these *vivid* dreams about very specific events in my life. One that stood out in particular was one of me riding behind this gray horse. Sure enough, years later, I find myself riding behind that same gray horse, down to the last detail. So I don’t know if that’s some kind of freaky coincidence or if some higher power (I personally believe in God) allowed me to see glimpses of my future.

[@raebaby4600]

I'm not diagnosed with autism but I'm pretty sure I have a mix of that and adhd (if you have doubts bc im self diagnosed it might help to know that my dad has autism) anyways, I have had dreams or daydreams about things happening between 12 hours-WEEKS before they happen and I love it bc its super freaking cool but at the same time I hate it bc I can't control it

[@FirstmaninRome]

Yeah, I agree we are anxious all the time, I Often getting that feeling that something awful is gonna happen, oversights by me have a meteor coming at me so to speak, in recent years it's Never been right but in younger years it sometimes was

[@NinaGothMambaNegra]

So this is why the gothic occult esoteric stuff was a hardcore hyperfixation.

[@wdlovesthee736]

this is awesome. thanks for doing this topic & video. i have always thought the same thing - we autistic folks perceive a LOT, we are picking up information others pass by & we are so good at the patterning - all that equals telepathy, precog, all of it really. that's so interesting that happened with you & the car crash - that happened to me last year. it was such a specific feeling in my body & then yah, crash. i'm glad they were minor for us both sheesh. all my life, this is very much a part of my every day, folks calling me psychic, etc. it kind of runs in the family though too- which funny enough so does neurodiversity. i really enjoyed how you put this information together, thanks so much. thanks for being

[@mmegraham]

BLURSeD! Yes, this is a descriptor for so many of us. For me, letters have personalities. Visual perceptions have a sound-in-my-head element. Excellent video, Syd!

[@JRVan-ez4yi]

Just yesterday the tech that lets the band at my church talk to the person doing screens (me) to let them know what they are playing next was acting up so I jokingly told the worship leader I just used my psychic abilities instead. . . (They do not notice how much they telegraph what they are doing next.)

[@g0wblin__]

i’m not autistic, or at least i haven’t gotten my diagnosis as it’s gonna take an extraordinarily long time, but i always have the strange dreams or thoughts of things happening in freaky amounts of detail and it’s so detailed to the point of me being able to put heavily detailed expressions and faces onto the people around me if there are any in that thought or dream. and then later, whether it be a day, a week, a month, a year, it happens just like that. it happens with the same people, the same items, everyone in the same positions as they were in the dream/thought and then i just get so freaked out and panic because it’s like “I just had a dream about this happening so why’s the exact thing happening now?”. and it’s happened since i was a small child so i’ve gotten used to it but i was always told it was deja vu and that it’ll stop but it’s been years and it still happens. i still get shocked and a bit pissed when it does happen to this day because of how often it tends to be

[@Isabell_she-they]

3:22 As someone who is currently studding both quantum physics, thermodynamics and general relativity, I feel like I ought to say that non of these support any notion of predicting the future beyond regular determinism.
According to relativity no information can ever travel faster than the speed of light, specifically _because_ this would make it possible to communicate backwards in time, which would lead to paradoxes (as I mention at the end).
In thermodynamics, the 2nd law that entropy allways increases is essentially what defines the direction of time, and explains why you can't move backwards in time.
Lastly quantum physics is actually less strict with determinism, allowing effect to come before cause. However information can, again, still not travel faster than light, so all you can predict is what random noise someone else will observe.
If you just think about it logically, if it were possible to communicate backwards in time, then I could just signal someone in the past to kill me yesterday so I can never tell them to kill me. This is self contradictory, and is impossible because of that.

[@liamdacre1818]

I love the video. I’m autistic and precognition is very interesting. I didn’t know that precognition was related to Autism

[@rekall76]

an uncanny ability to identify patterns amongst seemingly-unrelated phenomena

[@biggestnerdalive8476]

Yeah I have dreams of just little moments with specific people in a specific place about a specific something and then it happens… kinda creepy

[@badkeiser]

I have a thing where I misinterpret words for words that sound the same etc. Those misinterpretations sometimes seem to have predicted the future when something happens later. I’m not hallucinating because when I ask others if a sentence sounds like another they say they hear it too. It started when I was reading metaphysical poetry where I had to learn to find hidden meanings. I possibly have schizophrenia, ASD ,OCD, ADHD, brain damage and Tourette’s. My doctor says this phenomena sounds obsessive in nature to him. Have you heard of this before?

[@alexodeh]

Hello, already saw this vid around February-march 2022.
And commented on it once so I’ll do it twice but you won’t know I did it twice because I already dreamed of watching this video two years ago.

[@maggielea2853]

Is this the "indigo child" I was called growing up? 😂

[@autistinquisitor9441]

We are like real life Jedi. Now if only we can "harness" the Force better.

[@liamdacre1818]

I’m hypersensitive to sounds, light, smells and taste. I can’t eat certain foods because they are too strong and I’m very sensitive to touch as well and I avoid certain fabrics and materials. I get motion sickness quite easily as well

[@tumk4n]

I was able to guess sentences correctly before even said by my friends, but I lost this ability :(

[@laitarianplayz8080]

I predicted COVID and #metoo apparently.

[@HobGungan]

Oh I have ESP about mundane everyday stuff. I'll have dreams of just a normal everyday thing happening and months later I'll find myself looking at and hearing the same things in the same way in the same context with the same details. Truly the most frustratingly useless superpower.

[@strictnonconformist7369]

I remember the time I dreamt the name of someone my friend and his brother were discussing setting me up with, as they were discussing it over AOL Instant Messenger, with my friend over 7 miles away, his brother over 1000 miles away, and I'd had zero interaction with them in the timeframe they'd had any discussion.
His brother was a character in my dream, and handed me a small slip of paper with the name printed neatly on it. It wasn't a name that existed in the phonebook locally. It wasn't a common name.
I rarely have clearly identifiable people in my dreams, with the most common being immediate family. I especially rarely have people I don't see regularly (I'd seen his brother twice, shook his hand once, had no other contact or contact information) in dreams. Names being used in dreams? I can count on the fingers of one hand minus fingers how often that has happened, even now at 52.
I could practically hear my friend's jaw bounce off the floor when later that day, I called him up in the phone, and before he could say anything other than hello, I asked him what he and his brother knew about that person, and why were they trying to set me up with them.
There's no way in accepted science I could have done that. That happened about a year before my unexpected diagnosis, where I'd recognized I got weirdly stuck in patterns of inertia with no emotional component and no clear logical reason, and I was in a critical time I needed to escape from my current pattern.